Posted on 10/06/2020 6:50:03 AM PDT by Jumper
Joe Biden was the senator who is responsible for the failure of President Ford's Congressional Request to "Hold the Center" and the fall of S. Viet Nam.
I HAVE NOT READ THE BOOK NOR HAVE I READ THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORDS - BUT I BELIEVE THE FOLLOWING TO BE FACTUAL.
Donald Rumsfeld's wonderful biography of Gerald Ford, titled "When the Center Held." It was written in 2018. The book clearly articulates that President Ford was a thoroughly good man, a special American, and a greatly underrated President. HOWEVER, there was a story in the book that was startling.
In 1975, President Ford was left to manage the difficult ending of the Vietnam War. As North Vietnam seized on the opportunity to test American resolve following President Nixon's' resignation, President Ford went to Congress to ask for a relief package to push back on the North Vietnamese to allow .
American personnel and our allies to evacuate. However, there was one US Senator who opposed any such support. The result was the embarrassing and hurried evacuation from the roof of the American embassy in Saigon.
This senator reviled in the embarrassment and did everything he could to leverage it politically against Ford.
Despite the efforts of this U.S Senator--President Ford managed to rescue 1,500 South Vietnamese allies prior to the country's fall. Had President Ford not acted quickly, these people would have been targeted and slaughtered for their support for America. Saving them was a moral obligation.
When they arrived in America, President Ford asked Congress for a package to assist these refugees as they integrate into American society. But that troublesome US Senator showed up-again and torpedoed any support for these shell-shocked refugees. Instead, President Ford had to recruit Christian organizations to offer assistance on a voluntary basis. As he did so, the aforementioned-Senator belittled those efforts.
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After President Ford lost the election and had left the office, my dad worked with him in Vail, Colorado. I was 13 at the time. Mr Ford was extremely bright and always kind to me. I used to LOVE playing with his dogs, Misty and Liberty, and thought it was surreal to do so - mostly cuz I was a big fan of SNL at the time and how the dogs were portrayed as stuffed on the show. Never got to meet Mrs Ford but it all was a great experience.
I met him once.
Biden was not alone in abandoning Viet Nam.
I will happily blame him for it. But he was not alone.
Ping.
If so, he had a lot of help.
He should have gone with Kemp in the first place.
Barring that, replacing ‘41 with anybody in ‘84 would have been nice.
Ford could have nuked No. Vietnam, three main cities, Hanoi, Haiphong (and ports) and Dong Ha above the DMZ. The message to the NVA in So. Vietnam would have been obvious. You will have no homes to go home to. Turn around and immediately leave SVN or I will nuke you too.
No balls and the Congress was then full of communists and sympathizers from Kennedy, Abzug, Burtons, Fraser (insane), Dodd, Conyers, etc.
Ford was a nice guy but he “was found wanting” when the shit hit the fan.
I was involved in So. Vietnam/Cambodia affairs since 1965, and then helped refugees afterwards. I know what we could have done to win the war. We didn’t.
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The DD214 is really a three or four page document. Discharge status is only shown on one of the pages.
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